Re: email as a bona fide git transport

Willy Tarreau
2019-10-18T04:57:28Z

On Thu, Oct 17, 2019 at 09:54:47PM -0400, Konstantin Ryabitsev wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 17, 2019 at 06:30:29PM -0700, Greg KH wrote:
> > > It could only possibly work if nobody ever adds their own
> > > "Signed-Off-By" or
> > > any other bylines. I expect this is a deal-breaker for most maintainers.
> >
> > Yeah it is :(
> >
> > But, if we could just have the signature on the code change, not the
> > changelog text, that would help with that issue.
>
> We totally should, and I even mused on how we would do that here:
> https://public-inbox.org/git/20190910121324.GA6867@pure.paranoia.local/
>
> However, since git's PGP signatures are made for the content in the actual
> commit record (tree hash, parent, author, commit message, etc), the only way
> we could preserve them between the email and the git tree is if we never
> modify any of that data. The SOB and other trailers would have to only be
> applied to the merge commit, or migrate into commit notes.

There's also the possibility to handle this a bit like we do when adding
comments before the SOB: a PGP signature would apply to the text *before*
it only. We could then have long chains of SOB, PGP, SOB, PGP etc.

Willy